New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-04
GETTING TIE FACTS RIGHT.
"A DRAMA IN TWO ACTs.1

SCENE: The Rreeutire Chamber a. Albany GOVERNOR
HILL andhis PRIVATE SECRETARY dseorercd elosed To-
oe1er bulky manuscript tied rih blue ribbon lies
he table al which M>y sit
Goreyn0r-Coonel that manuscript the table Is the
first draft OF speech which I'm shortly deliver The
newspapers have been poging 20 much fin at me for
brooklyn dinner that I'm exceedingly anxious that my
next performance on the stump should DO Tree from his
torical blundera DO you attend ,,
SocreidTy-Most certainly, your EIcellency. What Is
your mandate
pray you sSGd Hy take the
which make TO the statesmen OF the country particular
the thought OF putting my foot again I've exercised
cecding Ia preparing this last speech 30 that
nattcr myself It's absolutely accurate. But wsh to
s sseretv gladly viii undertake. the task Tho
EIceency. that there is not politician iu the State
that has moi shed all his buttons laughpg at you. sad
be m took pretty fresh statesman make that Yodng
error" Give me the dag mean the manuscript
The 0oranOr-Take 1t aud give your whole mind to it.
EreunL
SCENE: The Erecutire Chamber HILL Is discorered
pacing the floor alone, a Ia Napoleon at 81 Helena
The Gorernor-what no there without II that be you,
my trusy Private Secretary, enter.
Enter the Secretary.
Well, have you completed your examination OF my
'i Seereta,y-I have your Excellency.
The 6orernor-Good! Whom the gods love die young:
Now Young had only died Young why then he had not
iSeerefHv. we'll, no. not any mistakes OF course
not or two casual inadvertences, slips Of
me Gorernor-say you sol What are these nadver-
SECRETARY spreading open the speech upon the table !
Here YOU express yourself follows: THAT life long
and ardent Republican Iiorao Seymour in his gallant
defence OF Fort sumter.
TIe Gorernor-wel, what's the matter with that
Secreary-Oh. nothing nothing only tina Horatio Soy
mour was not strictly speaking, Republican, and that
zone OF his bographers mention his assisting at the de-
fence OF Sumter.
Sooernor-Ah. Draw blue pencil mark around that
passage III look at 1t again. Anything else out Of the
Sse,rny-Practcay nothing but turning the leaves
of the speech aud Indicating the place pencil here
Won SxcIaim No of my predecessors in the Ersc-
1--we Chair stands higher In the affections OF the
ernor Alonzo h. Morgan"
Gorermor-And flaw be picked in that statement
S,crsLuy--It IL not for me To that there can
still il is only fair that should mention you that there
is an Impression abroad that the said Morgan was a Re-
publican. while according 10 The civil List he spelled his
name Edwin ID. not Alonzo Is.
Gorernor-Mars that also with your blue pencil And
Secrehuy-l am. hut pray attend minute more I
notice ON pare 90 near tho middle In n passage OF
great eoqucnce you write Z" shall enter on no en-
comiuns upon the democratic Governors OF this State
there stand the glorious records OF Cornell OF Fenon OF
king aud there they viii stand forever"
Gorerno-io be sure, to be sure And do you pretend
TO argue that their records were not glorious
ScrJrd,y-O no, but are you absolutely certain your
Exeeency about their politics kccoect John Young!
Gocernor-iium Very good-rnn your blue pencil
around that Also The speech told you Ia one OF my
hasty productions Well does that exhaust your list
SecreiUyJ-I have reserved my serious criticism
until the last have aVed you from blum
der in comparison with which the Young is in.i
nncant There Is one passage IN your Grafton so paPaby
drawn my blue pencil not only around II but through
Il is clearly mistake In copying
6ora1t0N-say you sol IL IS most strange rarely
make mistake IN copying What is tho passage Lsrs
Seerrtary-,Here 1t Is. on page "a near tho bottom:
1.-THE Republican party owes debt OF gratitude TO Grover
Cleveland which II can never repay ae has furnished
mont Tor their use IN 49, " course, when you wrote